Orbit – open-source design system
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Orbit – open-source design system
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Re: Orbit – open-source design system
#2I used to work at Kiwi.com when Orbit was started. It grew into such an impressive framework! It’s been advertised as “components for your travel site” for a long while but it’s totally appropriate for any kind of site.
Re: Orbit – open-source design system
#3I've been doing a lot of research into design systems and one thing that's lacking in most of these documentation sites is examples build with the component library. It's hard for me to get a feel for it without being able to click through a real application.
Also, paid managed services on the backend are super common. I want a paid frontend component library. There are very few of these and I think there's room for an all star frontend team to sell professionally maintained, always improving components. Even on day 1 of my company I'd be willing to pay $100s a month for this
Re: Orbit – open-source design system
#4There's not many open-source design system documentations, that's a big plus
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#5I've been doing a lot of research into design systems and one thing that's lacking in most of these documentation sites is examples build with the component library. It's hard for me to get a feel for it without being able to click through a real application. Also, paid managed services on the backend are super common. I want a paid frontend component library. There are very few of these and I think there's room for…
There are a few such as Tailwind UI that are paid-for component libraries. https://tailwindui.com
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#6There's not many open-source design system documentations, that's a big plus
I just wish that the getting started with them (for designers) wasn't "Step 1: start by logging into Figma"
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#7The title ("Orbit – open-source design system documentation") is a bit confusing to me (I'm a technical writer so anything with "documentation" catches my eye). It seems like the provided link is just the documentation for a collection of open source web components? Or is the documentation itself open source? I'm not trying to be pedantic here, just asking in case I'm missing something. In other words it seems like the word "documentation" isn't necessary in the title in this case.
Re: Orbit – open-source design system
#8The title ("Orbit – open-source design system documentation") is a bit confusing to me (I'm a technical writer so anything with "documentation" catches my eye). It seems like the provided link is just the documentation for a collection of open source web components? Or is the documentation itself open source? I'm not trying to be pedantic here, just asking in case I'm missing something. In other words it seems like t…
Yep, sorry, it's probably a bit confusing. The whole design system is open-source, from its components to also the documentation. You can find it on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/kiwicom/orbit/tree/master/docs
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#9Re: Orbit – open-source design system
#10The title ("Orbit – open-source design system documentation") is a bit confusing to me (I'm a technical writer so anything with "documentation" catches my eye). It seems like the provided link is just the documentation for a collection of open source web components? Or is the documentation itself open source? I'm not trying to be pedantic here, just asking in case I'm missing something. In other words it seems like t…
Yep, sorry, it's probably a bit confusing. The whole design system is open-source, from its components to also the documentation. You can find it on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/kiwicom/orbit/tree/master/docs
Whole system of what, exactly? Title doesn’t make that clear.